...But this definition of the “consensus” includes nearly 100 percent of every identified climate skeptic, whose chief dispute is whether the models and the evidence substantiate the claim that we face catastrophic warming of 4 degrees C or more. This is one reason why the constant refrain about the rock-solid “consensus” has been so dishonest from the beginning. Cohn’s failure to reinforce the old alarmist prediction is the dog that doesn’t bark in this article. These are exactly the observations that when offered a decade ago (and even if quoted from the IPCC itself) got you condemned as a “denialist,” and if this article had appeared in The New Republic 10 years ago, it would have been attacked as a denialist brief.